When friends invite you to dinner you don’t turn up empty-handed. And when Holler my Dear asks you round for food, drinks and merriment, it is best not to come on a full stomach. With the new album <Eat, drink and be merry>(2015), the versatile folk-band from Berlin is throwing a party and it’s a real knees-up. Along with tasty favorites and some bitter-sweet tones, there’s plenty of hot and hearty fare on offer.

Holler my Dear is a young band from Berlin that enchants with hearty Folk/Jazz/Acoustic Pop songs. Laura Winkler the singer and bandleader writes lovingly arranged songs full of details: sometimes gentle and dreamy, sometimes powerful and danceable like the lively sister of Singer-Songwriter. This sounds a little bit like Motown-Tango or Western-Klezmer. And it smells a little bit like a circus. Laura looks for melancholy in her dark-green melodies, but she sprinkles enough winks in her stories while she's singing about a troll or lets her nose or the moon disappear. Her five Austro-Russian-English Berlin town musicians join in with virtuosity and playfulness and together they play high energetic devoted concerts.